Just in case the name doesn't tip you off, one listen makes it clear that the music of Swamp Cabbage could only come from one area -- the Louisiana bayous and northeast Florida palmetto thickets that songwriter Walter Parks calls home. Parks (who also keeps himself busy playing lead guitar for Richie Havens) describes the Swamp Cabbage sound as “Northeast Florida-style, fatback, boogaloo blues stirred into a gumbo of Louisiana ragtime.” Swamp Cabbage is a raunchy foot-stompin’ tip of the hat to Chet Atkins, Billy Gibbons, Tom Waits, Doc Watson and Dr. John. It's new Southern music--different from, yet keeping with, the North Mississippi All Stars and Mofro.

Parks’ fingerpicked electric guitar honks like a razorback hog. Drummer Jagoda grooves like he’s leadin’ a New Orleans funeral parade, and Matthew Lindsey’s hollow-body bass barks like a tuba through a fuzz box.

Although their new CD, Honk, was recorded in St Augustine, the band now all reside in the New York area.

Band bio courtesy of Swamp Cabbage.

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